True Detective | Season 1 | Episode 5

The Secret Fate of All Life

TV-MA | 57 MIN

A violent denouement in the forest clears the Dora Lange case and turns Cohle and Hart into local heroes. In 2012, Gilbough and Papania put their cards on the table, presenting disturbing new intelligence.

1.The Long Bright Dark

Martin Hart and Rustin Cohle, lead investigators in a macabre 1995 murder, relive the case and their partnership in the wake of new info.

2.Seeing Things

Under pressure to land a suspect, Cohle and Hart follow a lead to a cathouse and an incinerated church.

3.The Locked Room

Cohle and Hart visit a tent revival in search of leads. Hart gets sidetracked at a bar.

4.Who Goes There

Hart and Cohle follow a series of dangerous leads in an effort to locate prime suspect Reggie Ledoux.

5.The Secret Fate of All Life

Hart and Cohle share the spoils of a solved case. Papania and Gilbough confront the detectives with troubling new intelligence.

6.Haunted Houses

Maggie sheds light on Cohle's activities in 2002, when his relationship with Hart fractured and Cohle quit the force.

7.After You've Gone

Hart and Cohle forge a truce to probe a murky string of disappearances that tie to the symbology of the Dora Lange murder and the Tuttle family.

8.Form and Void

An overlooked detail provides Hart and Cohle with an important new lead in their 17-year-old case.